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The Campus of Clemson University was originally the site of U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun 's plantation, named Fort Hill. The plantation passed to his daughter, Anna, and son-in-law, Thomas Green Clemson. On Clemson's death in 1888, he willed the land to the state of South Carolina for the creation of a public university.
Clemson University ( / ˈklɛmp.sən, ˈklɛm.zən / [6] [7] [note a]) is a public land-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university by enrollment in South Carolina. [8] For the fall 2023 semester, the university enrolled a total of 22,875 undergraduate students and 5,872 graduate students, [3] and the student/faculty ratio was ...
The West Bank ( Arabic: الضفة الغربية, romanized : aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; Hebrew: הַגָּדָה הַמַּעֲרָבִית, romanized : HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit ), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip ). A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the ...
Clemson is located at 34°41′6″N 82°48′53″W (34.684930, −82.814777) [13] approximately 27 miles (43 km) west of downtown Greenville and 15 miles (24 km) north of Anderson. The city is situated near the northwestern corner of South Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains while also on the shores of Lake Hartwell .
The list of closed colleges includes many that, because of state laws, were racially segregated. In other words, those colleges are not just "historically" black, they were entirely black for as long as they existed.
Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson (February 13, 1817 – September 22, 1875) was the daughter of John C. Calhoun and Floride Calhoun (née Colhoun), and the wife of Thomas Green Clemson, the founder of Clemson University.
EastWest Bank ( PSE : EW, Hokkien Chinese: 東盛銀行; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tang-sēng Gûn-hâng; Mandarin simplified Chinese: 东盛银行; traditional Chinese: 東盛銀行; pinyin: Dōngshèng Yínháng ), [12] formally known as East West Banking Corporation, is the eleventh largest bank in the Philippines in terms of assets. [13] It was founded in 1994 in Manila by the late tycoon, Andrew ...
Bowden went 7-2 record against South Carolina in his nine seasons at Clemson from 1999 to 2008 and supports the Tigers moving to the SEC over the Big Ten if they ever choose to leave the ACC.